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Self-Control

• ¶ 1Self-control is the basis of all virtues. Unruly thoughts, attractions of the senses, lustful desires, anger, covetousness, and avarice constantly arise in the mind of…
• ¶ 35…is restless and difficult to control. But it can be conquered, Arjuna, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult…
• ¶ 3…two nearly universal metaphors employed to describe self-control: military conquest and the horse and rider. The conquest of self is the most difficult of all…

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Restraint

• ¶ 1The path to self-control begins with restraint. Restraint has several aspects. First, we should avoid situations that would tempt us to sin.

Subduing the Desires of the Flesh

• ¶ 2Striking and weakening the body through rigorous self-control, fasting, sitting hours at meditation, etc., are all commendable ways to struggle against the flesh’s desires…
• ¶ 5…it “Satan’s dance hall.” Related passages on self-conquest are found in Chapter 12: Self-Control; yet, perfect self-control is nearly impossible to attain.

Meditation

• ¶ 34The wise, self-controlled, and tranquil souls, who are contented in spirit, and who practice austerity and meditation in solitude and silence, are freed from all…
• ¶ 1…sense stimuli, controlling the mind’s wandering thoughts and feelings, and finally attaining a pure state of stillness where the true self-nature can reveal itself.

Cultivating the Good

• ¶ 12By sustained effort, earnestness, discipline, and self-control, let the wise man make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. Dhammapada 25 (Buddhism)
• ¶ 15…your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly…

The Ten Commandments

• ¶ 4…e.g., self-control and generating a heart of compassion. Confucianism has its list of five—the Five Relations—with a distinctive emphasis on relationships rather…

Offerings and Tithes

• ¶ 9…the fire of the senses. Some offer the workings of the senses and the vital forces through the fire of self-control, kindled in the path…

True Love

• ¶ 91The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control; against such there is no law. Galatians 5.23

Spiritual Growth

• ¶ 8…step, One gradually fulfills all Buddha teachings. It is like first setting up a foundation Then building the room: Generosity and self-control, like this, Are…

The Moral Foundations of Society

• ¶ 15…MoonThe Bible teaches about the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, benevolence, goodness, loyalty, gentleness, and self-control. (Gal. 5:22-23)

Good and Evil

• ¶ 49…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. Galatians 5.19-23

Perfection

• ¶ 60The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. Galatians 5.23
• ¶ 20In other words, you should reach the state of self-mastery, controlling your body, with no conflict or opposition between your mind and body. (37:122…

Preparation and Making a Good Beginning

• ¶ 13…the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but…

Media Credibility and Social Responsibility

• ¶ 10…are created to be free spiritual beings, but when God created human beings free, He also gave them responsibility. Freedom requires self-discipline and self-control.

The doctrine of the Holy Spirit

• ¶ 5…the Spirit" (Gal 5:25). Believers will manifest the gifts of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, faith, meekness, and self-control (5:22,23).

The Human Fall

• ¶ 114…put them in harness. It is different now, when even people who live a life of moral and religious self-control have to bridle these passions.

Freedom

• ¶ 36This is because freedom requires self-discipline and self-control. Freedom exists within the law, not apart from the law. There are physical and spiritual laws…

Creativity and Art

• ¶ 58…character—one, for example, working in the direction of melancholy, another of effeminacy; one encouraging abandonment, another self-control, another enthusiasm, and so on. Aristotle (Hellenism)